Asian Art

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    • By: Hiroaki Sato
    • Narrated by: Walter Dixon
    • Length: 14 hrs and 39 mins
    • Release date: 08-25-16
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 50 ratings
    • In Legends of the Samurai, Hiroaki Sato confronts both the history and the legend of the samurai, untangling the two to present an authentic picture of these legendary warriors....

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    • America's Century-Long Hunt for Asian Art Treasures
    • By: Karl E. Meyer, Shareen Blair Brysac
    • Narrated by: George Backman
    • Length: 17 hrs and 10 mins
    • Release date: 08-11-15
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 8 ratings
    • North American museums now possess the greatest collections of Chinese art outside of East Asia itself. How did it happen.? Listen to find out...

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    • The Life of Ruth Asawa
    • By: Marilyn Chase
    • Narrated by: Cindy Kay
    • Length: 10 hrs and 26 mins
    • Release date: 11-08-22
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 10 ratings
    • This is the story of a woman who wielded imagination and hope in the face of intolerance and who transformed everything she touched into art. In this compelling biography, author Marilyn Chase brings Ruth Asawa's story to vivid life....

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    • The History and Principles of China’s Most Explosive Martial Art
    • By: Danny Xuan, John Little
    • Narrated by: P.J. Ochlan
    • Length: 9 hrs and 27 mins
    • Release date: 06-08-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 51 ratings
    • Wing Chun is the most popular form of Chinese kung fu in the world today, with more than four million practitioners. This guide will fascinate and educate anyone interested in the martial arts, from beginner to master....

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    • A Novel
    • By: Wesley Chu
    • Narrated by: Natalie Naudus
    • Series: The War Arts Saga, Book 1
    • Length: 18 hrs and 41 mins
    • Release date: 08-09-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 223 ratings
    • So many stories begin the same way: With a prophecy. A chosen one. And the inevitable quest to slay a villain, save the kingdom, and fulfill a grand destiny. But this is not that kind of story. It does begin with a prophecy....

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    • The Secret Wisdom of the Samurai
    • By: Yamamoto Tsunetomo, Alexander Bennett - translator
    • Narrated by: Tim Campbell
    • Length: 7 hrs and 58 mins
    • Release date: 04-16-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 105 ratings
    • The comprehensive and accurate edition of the Hagakure is a must-have for serious martial artists or fans of samurai and the Bushido code....

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    • A Modern Translation of the Bushido Shoshinshu of Taira Shigesuke
    • By: Thomas Cleary
    • Narrated by: Eric Michael Summerer
    • Length: 2 hrs and 26 mins
    • Release date: 10-13-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 73 ratings
    • With a bright, conversational narrative by Thomas Cleary, this book is indispensable to corporate executives, students of Asian culture, martial artists, or anyone sincerely interested in Japan and its people....

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    • Street Cultivation, Book 1
    • By: Sarah Lin
    • Narrated by: Travis Baldree
    • Series: Street Cultivation, Book 1
    • Length: 13 hrs and 38 mins
    • Release date: 01-07-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,008 ratings
    • The days of traveling martial artists and mountaintop masters are over. Power is controlled by corporations, modernized martial arts sects, and governments. Those at the bottom of society struggle as second class citizens in a world in which power is a commodity....

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    • Dispatches from a Precarious State
    • By: Declan Walsh
    • Narrated by: Roger Clark
    • Length: 11 hrs and 13 mins
    • Release date: 12-29-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 103 ratings
    • Declan Walsh is one of the New York Times's most distinguished international correspondents. His portrait of Pakistan over a tumultuous decade captures the sweep of this strange, wondrous, and benighted country through the dramatic lives of nine fascinating individuals....

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    • East Asian Fighting Styles, from Kung Fu to Ninjutsu
    • By: Jonathan Clements
    • Narrated by: Jonathan Clements
    • Length: 7 hrs and 48 mins
    • Release date: 10-21-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 31 ratings
    • From Shaolin warrior monks to the movies of Bruce Lee, a new history of the evolution of East Asian styles of unarmed combat, from kung fu to ninjutsu....

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    • The Strategy of Musashi
    • By: Miyamoto Musashi
    • Narrated by: Alec Sand
    • Length: 1 hr and 39 mins
    • Release date: 01-07-11
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,044 ratings
    • Legendary 17th century swordsman Miyamoto Musashi’s exposition of sword fighting, strategy and zen philosophy....

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    • A Novel (The War Arts Saga, Book 2)
    • By: Wesley Chu
    • Narrated by: Natalie Naudus
    • Length: 23 hrs and 11 mins
    • Release date: 10-10-23
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 65 ratings
    • Once there was a prophecy that a chosen one would rise to defeat the Eternal Khan, an immortal god-king. But the prophecy was wrong. Now Jian, the former chosen hero, is just an ordinary young man trying to find his own way....

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    • A Memoir
    • By: Connie Chung
    • Narrated by: Connie Chung
    • Length: 11 hrs and 35 mins
    • Release date: 09-17-24
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 87 ratings
    • In a sharp, witty, and definitive memoir like no other, iconic trailblazer and legendary journalist Connie Chung delves into her storied career as the first Asian woman to break into an overwhelmingly white, male-dominated television news industry.

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    • Japan and the Art of Survival
    • By: David Pilling
    • Narrated by: Tim Andes Pabon
    • Length: 14 hrs and 49 mins
    • Release date: 03-14-14
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 67 ratings
    • In Bending Adversity, Financial Times Asia editor David Pilling presents a fresh vision of Japan....

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    • How India Influenced the Beatles
    • By: Susan Shumsky DD
    • Narrated by: Christina Delaine
    • Length: 11 hrs and 38 mins
    • Release date: 10-25-22
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 5 ratings
    • The spiritual journey of the Beatles is the story of an entire generation of visionaries in the sixties who transformed the world. The Inner Light illumines hidden meanings of the Beatles' India-influenced lyrics and sounds, decoded by Susan Shumsky....

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    • An Untouchable Family and the Making of Modern India
    • By: Sujatha Gidla
    • Narrated by: Soneela Nankani
    • Length: 12 hrs and 43 mins
    • Release date: 05-22-18
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 31 ratings
    • Like one in six people in India, Sujatha Gidla was born an untouchable. While most untouchables are illiterate, her family was educated by Canadian missionaries in the 1930s....

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    • Daoshi Chronicles Series, Book 2
    • By: M. H. Boroson
    • Narrated by: Emily Woo Zeller
    • Series: Daoshi Chronicles, Book 2
    • Length: 12 hrs and 11 mins
    • Release date: 06-16-20
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 241 ratings
    • It's the end of the 19th century. San Francisco's cobblestone streets are haunted, but Chinatown has an unlikely protector in a young Daoist priestess named Li-lin....

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    • By: Katherine Paterson
    • Narrated by: Laurie Birmingham
    • Length: 8 hrs and 32 mins
    • Release date: 10-28-14
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 7 ratings
    • From her childhood in China to the moment she won her first National Book Award, literary icon Katherine Paterson shares the personal stories that inspired her children's books....

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    • How Japan Saved American Style
    • By: W. David Marx
    • Narrated by: Brian Nishii
    • Length: 8 hrs and 29 mins
    • Release date: 05-31-16
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 91 ratings
    • In Ametora, cultural historian W. David Marx traces the Japanese assimilation of American fashion over the past 150 years....

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